Media capture is not just about who owns a newsroom. It’s also about who controls what stories get told and how they're framed.
Join us TOMORROW at 6PM ET | 3PM PT for the LIVE launch of our NEW report: Media Capture: Who Controls the Story Controls the Future.
bit.ly/mediacapturelaunch
The US has surveilled protesters, journalists, religious leaders & others under Bush, Obama, Biden..
But the Trump admin 2.0 has inherited unquestionably the most sophisticated mass surveillance apparatus in human history.
They're expanding it.
And they dgaf about "laws" or "rules" or "norms"
The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse.
I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders.
The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then.
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Join us THIS THURSDAY at 6PM ET | 3PM PT for the LIVE launch of NEW report.
We'll expose the Tech Oligarchs’ agenda with experts:
💥 Janine Jackson at @fairmediawatch.bsky.social
💥 Alicia Bell at @borealisphil.bsky.social
💥 Joe Torres at @freepress.bsky.social
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Larry Ellison just became the most powerful media owner in the world. CNN, CBS, and thousands of other media outlets under one person's control. This week, AP leaders told its reporters resistance to AI replacing their writing is "futile." We wrote a report about exactly this and it dropped today.
Check out this new report! Corporate capture of our media is why we need media interventions not just at the level of storytelling & messaging but at the deeper level of community/worker ownership & democratic control.
Our report is the catalyst, but we need your voice in the conversation!
Join us NEXT THURS, 3/12, for our LIVE launch, where we’ll:
💥 Dive into the ways Tech Oligarchs are capturing our media system
💥 Connect your fight to the media system
💥 Break down why it matters
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The same Tech Oligarchs profiting from surveillance contracts with ICE, building #DataCenters that drain water & raise utility bills in Black & Latinx communities, & lobbying against AI regulation also own the media platforms that should be holding them accountable.
Our report connects these dots.
Today, we’re releasing our NEW #report, Media Capture: Who Controls the Story Controls the Future. 📱💥
#Media is NOT neutral. Our report maps how #Tech Oligarchs are capturing the media ecosystem through ownership, monetary power, and platform control.
bit.ly/mediacapturereport
@purgepalantir.bsky.social's Palantir Payroll resource tracks the money behind #Palantir’s web and exposes which representatives have received political donations:
purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...
Our Head of Programs, Jacinta González dives into how political donations have secured #Palantir's business model and how two representatives shut these bribes down. @denverpost.com
www.denverpost.com/2026/02/20/p...
This is how Palantir is connected to Epstein, ICE, and the IDF.
novaramedia.com/2026/02/19/w...
A pledge from a billionaire is NOT a victory. 🙅🏾
Our Sr. Movement Building Director, @myaishahayes.bsky.social breaks down our two takeaways from Trump’s #StateoftheUnion address this week.
So Amazon Ring cancelled its partnership with Flock Safety after a wave of backlash from the public over it's new Search Party feature due to the obvious ways the company is blanket surveilling entire communities- what's next? 🪡🧵...
www.theverge.com/news/878447/...
"ICE is a financial conduit between the federal government and the tech industry, namely the data-mining firm Palantir. Silicon Valley execs and Capitol Hill suits are getting rich and doing each other favors while a band of thugs threatens our communities and our democracy."
"Why is a company that powers mass surveillance and immigrant enforcement so deeply embedded in our political system in the first place?"
#PurgePalantir @mediajustice.bsky.social 🫡
Flock isn’t Amazon’s only surveillance partnership. It also works with Axon, a company most known for selling tasers, body cameras, and surveillance dashboards to police. Axon also lets police request Ring footage without a warrant.
Amazon might have cut ties with Flock due to backlash, but links to the surveillance state are baked into its business model. Ring became the #1 doorbell camera in the market via police partnerships, even hawking free devices to attract customers. www.latimes.com/business/tec...
We all knew that Amazon Ring’s “Search Party” feature wouldn’t stop at looking for dogs. In leaked emails, its founder talks about using it to search our sidewalks for *anyone* – that’s a constitution-defying power that no corporation should have.
www.404media.co/leaked-email...
The Department of Homeland Security is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas demanding they unmask the people behind anti-ICE accounts.
This crackdown on speech shows EXACTLY why online age verification laws are so dangerous.
Here's why: 🧵
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NM is moving to put guardrails on license plate reader surveillance. The Driver Privacy and Safety Act would ban ALPRs for general surveillance/civil traffic enforcement, limit what data can be shared out of state.
One wild stat: 80,000+ Flock cameras installed nationwide. @mediajustice.bsky.social
#Amazon’s Ring is breaking up with #Flock! Now that we’ve cut access to 10M+ household cameras with the police and ICE, let’s take it a step further and cut Ring’s partnership with Axon Enterprise.
We deserve a world without surveillance.
www.theverge.com/news/878447/...
Ring says it is terminating its partnership with police tech company Flock Safety following backlash to this commercial: www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/...
Our Campaign Specialist, @larareza.bsky.social, was featured on The Crossroads Suncast to shed light on the real-life harms #AI and #DataCenter development has on Black and brown communities.
Watch him expose the true cost of data centers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZsR...
Last week we hosted a LIVE conversation exposing how #Ring and #Flock track and sell us out to the police and ICE, just in time for Amazon’s #Superbowl propaganda ad.
Watch the full recording to learn how this #tech does nothing but surveil our communities.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nul_...
Worth noting that a lot of this surveillance infrastructure was funded and promoted by Democrats who framed it as a more humane alternative to Trump’s “wall”
The evidence suggests the “surveillance wall” actually lead to more deaths in the desert
“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”
Really great breakdown reminding folks that Ring has a LONG history of privacy violations and shady partnerships with law enforcement.
We welcomed 90+ SW organizers to Tucson, AZ for a #DataCenter training, in collaboration with @nodesertdatacenter.com! 🚗🌵📝
We brought community leaders together to build relationships, learned from each other’s campaigns, and strategized local intervention points to knock out #BigTech development!
